Forgive me if you know all this, but... Windows NT 5.x drops back to PIO after enough borked reads. Once it's dropped back, it doesn't go back to DMA without prodding. Swap the cable, remove anything else from the IDE channel then read this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;817472
Apple is not and never has been in competition with the likes of Gateway. They are not a box shifter. Apple compete with other people who make decent computers at the upper end of the price and quality spectrum, like Sony. They don't stick a couple of components with big headline numbers in a tin-foil box with the cheapest peripherals they can find.
Running a 386 isn't very clever unless you're using it as a terminal. As as a headless box, something like a Linksys NSLU2 is much more powerful in terms of computing power than a 386 and uses only a couple of watts. It'd pay for itself in electricity. Modern hardware isn't only about speed.
Can you tell me one logical reason why anyone might think that people with stiff, cold fingers would not make more typing errors than people with normal fingers? That's the point of the whole thing: only an idiot would need to test that hypothesis.
The WSJ kindly didn't give us a reference, so we don't know what was actualy in that paper. However, having read a few papers in my time I bet you my left arm that it didn't consist of "we made this guy's fingers really cold and his typing sucked". I bet it says precisely how poor the typing was. Do you know exactly how badly cold affects typing? Just how cold is "chilly"? Is it 280K or 290K? How is the error rate correlated with temperature? How is it correlated with age and sex?
If it's so futile to perform the experiment, if the answers are so obvious, you won't mind telling us the temperature at which a healthy 30-year old male experiences a 10% temperature-induced error rate.
I'm sure you wouldn't mind using your guess when deciding when you should shut down air-traffic control if the heating malfunctions, but I'd rather the people making decisions like that have some hard data to work from.
Ok. Perv has bookshelves. Hides said photos in between the books:
"We find that evidence of appellant's bookshelf use and the existence of books in his house was at least somewhat relevant to the state's case against him"
If there is anything more ridiculous than blaming the weapon for the act of the person, I'm sure I can't think of it offhand.
Let's try that again with crowbar shall we? I have a crowbar, I was using it today in fact. I'm not a burglar, but not everybody has a crowbar. I would fully expect that fact that I posess not only a crowbar but a wide array of tools which could be used to break into houses would come up in court if I were charged with burglary.
This is just hysteria. This decision does not say that encryption software alone is an indicator of criminal behaviour, just as my owning a crowbar alone doesn't indicate I'm a burglar.
Conception has no memory. It's a 50% (roughly) shot- each time, every time.
Conception doesn't need a memory for the GP's point to be valid. If we assume there is some set of conditions which leads to a greater chance of giving birth to a particular gender (which is what this study implies) then it follows that those who have historically given birth to a particular gender are more likely than average to be in the group with a propesity to give birth to that gender, thus they are less likely to give birth to the other gender in future.
I'm an engineer. My wife is a nurse. We have one daughter and one son. Go figure.
Here's what I figure: You are not in any way, shape or form unusual. You are, by any reasonable definition and based on the data presented, utterly uninteresting.
Come back when you've had 15 boys and no girls. Then you may be more than a data-point near the middle of the curve and your/. postings on the subject may ammount to more than noise.
The insight provided by such a single datum approaches zero. Why did you feel the need to tell us? If you'd had a boy, would you have posted about that too?
This really isn't falmebait, I actually want to know. This kind of thing occurrs frequently in any discussion where statistics are used. More often than not, it's along the lines of: "smoking causes cancer", "my gran smoked 40 a day and lived to 93 till she was hit by a bus".
Are you just being chatty? Do you want everyone to know you had a baby? Do you want everyone to think you're special as you're a member of a (large) minority?
A single data-point from a self-selecting sample is worse than useless in terms of understanding.
I'll get modded as a troll. But I still want to know.
I'm a physicist (by education anyway) and I didn't stay at home alone to watch it. I went to a Eurovision party and laughed at all the entries in the company of friends, booze and tasty Terry Wogan cakes.
Do people in the rest of Europe really take it seriously? Nobody in the UK does.
I see you're a real expert sysadmin, with a network so robust the failure of a single box can take down a critical service to a hundred million people.
If a hundred million people depend on it, don't you think it's even more important that you know it will come back up after a failure? It will fail some day, exactly when you don't want it to. I'm sure the hundred million people reading by candlelight for four days after an unexpected failure won't mind the fact that testing you should have done after making changes to this critical system is being done while the system is down, instead of in a maintenance window where the redundant systems (you do have them, right?) are ensuring service is uninterrupted.
I don't subscribe to the Ostrich school of system administration.
Somewhat morbid, but it's a sure-fire bet that sooner or later (my guess is sooner) one of these things is going to crash and burn. There may be a lot of excitement now and people queing up to thrown money at private spaceflight, but I wonder how big the market will be after the first few wealthy folks are burnt to a crisp on re-entry or make thier very own crater in the desert?
I'm surprised Virgin have staked their brand on something so risky.
Critical system admin think: Stabilize my box so there are no known problems, then leave it alone. It already does what it's supposed to do, so changes are unnecssary. If something causes a greater problem a reboot may just invoke it and crash my box, so, don't do that.
The fact that a reboot may show up a problem is a reason to reboot, not a reason not to.
The rovers have exceeded their design specification lifetime, but how different would the design of a rover to last 2 years be to one designed to last 3 months? I suspect not very different at all.
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Forgive me if you know all this, but... Windows NT 5.x drops back to PIO after enough borked reads. Once it's dropped back, it doesn't go back to DMA without prodding. Swap the cable, remove anything else from the IDE channel then read this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;817472
They were selling the iPod for a couple of years before iTunes came out. And they were selling a lot of them.
Apple is not and never has been in competition with the likes of Gateway. They are not a box shifter. Apple compete with other people who make decent computers at the upper end of the price and quality spectrum, like Sony. They don't stick a couple of components with big headline numbers in a tin-foil box with the cheapest peripherals they can find.
Jar-jar, is that you?
Am I the only one in the world to be pissed off more frequently by badly parked cars than I am by parking tickets?
You make extraordinary claims. Back them up.
Is that not normal? I'm English and practically everybody here with a salary gets paid monthly. Do you pay your mortgage and phone bill weekly too?
Oh mighty mods: If the parent was a Troll, it was a damn funny one. He said ass.
Running a 386 isn't very clever unless you're using it as a terminal. As as a headless box, something like a Linksys NSLU2 is much more powerful in terms of computing power than a 386 and uses only a couple of watts. It'd pay for itself in electricity. Modern hardware isn't only about speed.
The WSJ kindly didn't give us a reference, so we don't know what was actualy in that paper. However, having read a few papers in my time I bet you my left arm that it didn't consist of "we made this guy's fingers really cold and his typing sucked". I bet it says precisely how poor the typing was. Do you know exactly how badly cold affects typing? Just how cold is "chilly"? Is it 280K or 290K? How is the error rate correlated with temperature? How is it correlated with age and sex?
If it's so futile to perform the experiment, if the answers are so obvious, you won't mind telling us the temperature at which a healthy 30-year old male experiences a 10% temperature-induced error rate.
I'm sure you wouldn't mind using your guess when deciding when you should shut down air-traffic control if the heating malfunctions, but I'd rather the people making decisions like that have some hard data to work from.
I suspect there should be a "yet" in there. I doubt they are going to suddenly stop developing desktop apps after Keynote and Pages.
Anyway, they do have a desktop suite (AppleWorks) but it isn't that great and hasn't been updated in years. Open-source databases abound on OS X too.
Since when have sarcasm and insight been mutually exclusive?
Let's try that again with crowbar shall we? I have a crowbar, I was using it today in fact. I'm not a burglar, but not everybody has a crowbar. I would fully expect that fact that I posess not only a crowbar but a wide array of tools which could be used to break into houses would come up in court if I were charged with burglary.
This is just hysteria. This decision does not say that encryption software alone is an indicator of criminal behaviour, just as my owning a crowbar alone doesn't indicate I'm a burglar.
I had one of those tests too, with the same result: handwriting ability of a second grader. I think I was in second grade at the time.
Conception doesn't need a memory for the GP's point to be valid. If we assume there is some set of conditions which leads to a greater chance of giving birth to a particular gender (which is what this study implies) then it follows that those who have historically given birth to a particular gender are more likely than average to be in the group with a propesity to give birth to that gender, thus they are less likely to give birth to the other gender in future.
Here's what I figure: You are not in any way, shape or form unusual. You are, by any reasonable definition and based on the data presented, utterly uninteresting.
Come back when you've had 15 boys and no girls. Then you may be more than a data-point near the middle of the curve and your /. postings on the subject may ammount to more than noise.
The insight provided by such a single datum approaches zero. Why did you feel the need to tell us? If you'd had a boy, would you have posted about that too?
This really isn't falmebait, I actually want to know. This kind of thing occurrs frequently in any discussion where statistics are used. More often than not, it's along the lines of: "smoking causes cancer", "my gran smoked 40 a day and lived to 93 till she was hit by a bus".
Are you just being chatty? Do you want everyone to know you had a baby? Do you want everyone to think you're special as you're a member of a (large) minority?
A single data-point from a self-selecting sample is worse than useless in terms of understanding.
I'll get modded as a troll. But I still want to know.
Do people in the rest of Europe really take it seriously? Nobody in the UK does.
I presume they mean we are equally unpopular throughout Europe.
If a hundred million people depend on it, don't you think it's even more important that you know it will come back up after a failure? It will fail some day, exactly when you don't want it to. I'm sure the hundred million people reading by candlelight for four days after an unexpected failure won't mind the fact that testing you should have done after making changes to this critical system is being done while the system is down, instead of in a maintenance window where the redundant systems (you do have them, right?) are ensuring service is uninterrupted.
I don't subscribe to the Ostrich school of system administration.
I'm surprised Virgin have staked their brand on something so risky.
Yeah, because rich people aren't people are they?
The fact that a reboot may show up a problem is a reason to reboot, not a reason not to.
Why bother when they can call their buddies at the NSA for the Echelon logs?
The rovers have exceeded their design specification lifetime, but how different would the design of a rover to last 2 years be to one designed to last 3 months? I suspect not very different at all.